Improvement in hammock-supporters



limes" i PATENT OFFICE.

rAMEs M. K. soUTHwIeK, or NEWPORT, RHODE isLAnn.

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Speeiiicltion forming partof LettersPatentNo. 115,128', dated May 23, 1.871.

To all whom it may ,concerm f Be it known thatV I, JAMES M. K. SOUTH- WICK, of Newport, in the county of Newport and State ofnlthodke Island, have invented a new and useful Hammock-Supporter; and do hereby declare the 'followingto be a full and exact description thereof, referencebein g had 'to the accompanying drawing making part of this speciiicat-ion and to the lettersand numbers of reference marked thereon, similar letters and numbers being used inl all the figures @being connected together by joints,so that they may be folded upwith the pole in a bundle when not inuse.`

U Description of the Drawing'.

Figure 1 shows. the. supporter in position for` use. Fig.. 2 shows the supporter folded up. Fig. 3 represents a head of one of the tripods.

Description.

A is4 theY hammock, suspended by hooks from'eyesin theheadsof the tripods O D.

These vheads are formed of a center. piece, S, which has a socket on the top of it in which `the end of the brace-pole a, is inserted, and

three other pieces, c d e, which have sockets in their ends to receive the legs of the tripod. One of these pieces, e, is hung in a slotf in the middle of the lower part of the center piece, and the two others, e d, are held one on each side of the center piece, on pins which have nuts screwed on` their outer "ends to tighten down' on their ears and'hold them when set in place. The lower part of the center piece is beveled away where vthe outside pieces c d are hung to the angle at which those two legs are intended to stand apart when in use. The whole apparatus is arranged for use by raising the tripods and spreading the legs, as shown in Fig. 1, and hooking the harxmock to the eyes in the heads of the tri- PO S- When required to be packed up the harn- `mock is unhooked, the legs of the tripods are shut up against the brace-pole a. (See Fig. 2.) It' it is desirable to make a shorter bundle of it than the length of the brace-pole, a joint may be made in that pole, as'shown by the dotted lines o, a sleeve being used to slide over the joint to keep it rigid when in use, as in Aparasol-handles, &c.

What I claim as my invention isi The combination of the two tripods and the brace-pole, when constructed and arranged substantially as specified, and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES M. K. SOUTHWIGK. Witnesses:

CHARLES B. MARSH, l BENJAMIN MARSH, 2d. 

